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Example sentences for "inches from"

  • Elevate the extended index before the shoulder, palm forward, pass it upward as high as the head, and forming a short curve to the front, then downward again slightly to the front to before the breast and about fifteen inches from it.

  • Mr. Carter in one of his letters to me says: "I see that you make the biggest horns of Ovis Polii 53 inches from tip to tip.

  • Another pair in the British Museum measure on the skull 12 feet 2 inches from tip to tip and across the forehead, but these horns do not exactly correspond in length and shape.

  • Broil on a rack 4-inches from heat 5 to 6 minutes on each side until thoroughly cooked and springs back to the touch.

  • The fire is kept up by constantly throwing charcoal into the central well.

  • The interior is smooth, lined with somewhat finer grass, and measures 4 inches in depth by 3 inches from side to side, and by 2 inches from front to back.

  • Depth inside 1 inch, outside 1½ inches from rim to proper base, excluding about an inch of lichen continued down one side of the bough below the fork in which the nest was built.

  • Sew hood to cape, starting about 2 inches from beading at beg of cape, gathering across leaving 2 inches at end.

  • Inc in same manner every inch, until cape measures 11 inches from end of yoke.

  • Work even until sleeve measures 20 inches from cuff or desired length to underarm.

  • Fix the point for the nail at T about 2 inches from H and B.

  • Note that the bridge is nailed about 3-1/4 inches from bottom of post.

  • One very fine Carrier measured 31 1/2 inches from tip to tip of wing.

  • One of my birds measured 38 1/2 inches from tip to tip of wing.

  • One of my birds measured 38½ inches from tip to tip of wing.

  • One very fine Carrier measured 31½ inches from tip to tip of wing.

  • The Pouter, though not bulky, is a large bird; I measured one which was 34½ inches from tip to tip of wing, and 19 inches from tip of beak to end of tail.

  • In the figure it is placed 6½ inches from A, and 1½ inches from C, making the total length of string 8 inches.

  • Insert a pin or small tack loosely in the hole between 6 and 7, which is distant 6-½ inches from O.

  • Measure 8 inches from G to J and then mark off J K L M making it like H G F I.

  • A to B, and forming a copper box 6 inches wide from B to C and 8 inches from C to D.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inches from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    awful thing; call for; comes forth; compound microscope; darkened room; double star; forest land; inches across; inches apart; inches deep; inches diameter; inches from; inches high; inches long; inches tall; inches thick; little doubtful; look again; make laws; make plain; metallic currency; milieu des; should become; thin crust; under side; wolde have